The ScotsmanJanuary 14, 2003

Lucy sent me the following review of Tori's January 12, 2003 concert in Glasgow, U.K. which appeared in the January 14, 2003 edition of The Scotsman newspaper.

REVIEW TORI AMOS
Fiona Shepherd

Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow

SINCE taking a couple of years out of her career to start a family, Tori
Amos has been productive in other ways, with two new albums - Strange Little
Girls and Scarlett's Walk - now under her belt. On this return to touring,
her fans could not get enough of the empress of the ebony and ivory,
encouraging her every overly theatrical coquettish gesture and seductively
drawled anecdote and still whooping with delight at a bass solo a full 90
minutes into the set. In her floaty frock and mad boots, wedged between her
two keyboards - a grand piano and a synthesiser - in her familiar
stool-straddling pose, she looked like Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie with
extra affectations. But you've got to buy the whole angst vamp act to get
through two hours of homogenous material without attention wandering.

While Cornflake Girl has the corniest lyrics, at least its dramatic piano
refrain has a dynamism lacking elsewhere in her set. Familiarity may bring
out the nuances in the material. Otherwise, Scarlett's Walk was just too
long a journey to undertake if you were not already smitten.